My partner recently saw "How To Train Your Dragon" and noticed a strong resemblance between the dragon and our black cat Raven. Did you cats inspire your characterizations of dragons?
almasferas askedYes! We used a ton of animal reference. For Toothless we used a lot of cat and dog reference as well as eagles and bird reference for the flight. Nadder movement was influenced by parrot and big bird movement. Gronkle had some bumblebee in there and Monstrous Nightmare was inspired by lizard and bat movement.
Mike Stern
